to ask workmen to turn radio off?

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I've got two carpet fitters working here today.

They arrived half an hour ago and brought a portable radio with them - which they promptly turned up to full volume.

It's a terraced house so I can't escape it. Would I be unreasonable to ask them to turn it off or is that not the done thing?

I've got builders in at the moment. They've been here 2 weeks so far. They have a radio! I'm quite surprised that the neighbour across the road hasn't been over and asked yelled at them to turn it down.

"Yes and as PP said previously, the law requires them to have a licence from the PRS/PPL to listen to music in their place of work"

Off-track (and how do you know they dont have a license anyway) but interesting point - the PPS non-charging policy covers individuals when they work at home but if other people are there then they need to pay. So if builders come to a home where the owner works and the own listens to music who become liable?

How is it male entitlement? I can't work / concentrate without background noise too and I'm pretty sure last time I checked I was still a woman.

OP. Just take yourself out for a couple of hours and leave them to get on with it. If you can't do that then just ask politely to turn it down a little but not off.

LOL @ all the suggestions to just put up with it, leave your own house (with two randoms in there), get them a brew. You are paying them good money to perform a service. YANBU.

'I asked them to turn it down and they did but were a bit stroppy about it.'

I'd report them to their employer if they're working for one.

Completely unprofessional to not even ask.

' If you can't do that then just ask politely to turn it down a little but not off.'

She did! They were rude and stroppy.

I agree male entitlement.
Never had a woman do this (cleaner, nanny), only men (builder, plumber, painter).
Coincidence?

I suspect my last painter was one of those trans people MN posters take a disliking to. I thought she was a she but if its male entitlement that prompts loud radios then it must have been the patriarchy and entitlement that was instilled in her prior to her transition.

Excellent job she did to. Admittedly it wasnt music that was loud, it was a podcast.

I always say very apologetically that my elderly neighbours complain about noise. They don't as I wouldn't subject them or myself to it.

Off-track (and how do you know they dont have a license anyway) but interesting point - the PPS non-charging policy covers individuals when they work at home but if other people are there then they need to pay. So if builders come to a home where the owner works and the own listens to music who become liable?

Well if you read my post I said IF they didn't have a licence they'd need to turn it off, no assumption made.

Secondly, depends on who the radio belongs to. If it's the builders, it is their responsibility, and if they are taking a radio to places where they work and there is more than one of them on the job then they would need to have the licence anyway even if the homeowner wasn't present. Two people listening to music (even the radio) at a place of work becomes a public broadcast.

As I understand the law, the homeowner is allowed to listen to the radio in her own home and others can listen (guests/workmen/non residents) as long as she doesn't charge for it - this doesn't count as a public broadcast.

In my place of work we have to have a licence, and there are three of us in the office listening to Radio 2 on a stream. If it goes above a certain number of workers or the general public have access to hear the music, the amount increases significantly.